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VATICAN CITY, OCT. 8, 2007 (Zenit) - Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave Sunday to the crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square when he led the praying of the midday Angelus.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
This first Sunday of October offers us two reasons for prayer and reflection: the memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, which is today, and the commitment to missions, to which this month is dedicated in a special way.
The traditional image of the Madonna of the Rosary depicts Mary holding the child Jesus in her arm and giving the rosary to St. Dominic. This significant iconography shows that the rosary is a means given by the Virgin for contemplating Jesus and, meditating on his life, for loving and following him always more faithfully.
This is something that Mary has also offered in various apparitions. I am thinking especially of her appearance at Fatima that took place 90 years ago. To the three little shepherds, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco, presenting herself as "the Madonna of the Rosary," she insistently recommended praying the rosary every day to bring an end to the war.
We also desire to welcome the Virgin�s maternal request, committing ourselves to saying the rosary with faith for peace in our families, in countries, and in the whole world.
In any case, we know that peace spreads where men and institutions are open to the Gospel. The month of October helps us to recall this fundamental truth through a mobilization that seeks to promote an authentic missionary drive in each community, and to support the work of priests, religious and laypeople who work on the Church's mission frontiers.
With special care we prepare to celebrate, on Oct. 21, the World Mission Day, which will have as its theme "All the Churches for All the World."
The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of our time, who is in many ways humiliated and oppressed, and to orientate in a Christian way cultural, social, and ethical transformations that are unfolding in the world.
This year we are moved toward a renewal of missionary commitment for still another reason: the 50th anniversary of the encyclical "Fidei Donum" of the Servant of God Pius XII, which promoted and encouraged cooperation among the Churches for the mission "ad gentes."
With pleasure I recall also that 150 years ago five priests and a layman of the Institute of Don Mazza in Verona departed for Africa, for present-day Sudan. Among them was St. Daniel Comboni, future bishop of central Africa and patron of the people of that region, whose liturgical memorial is Oct. 10.
We entrust all missionaries to the intercession of these pioneers of the Gospel and to the many other canonized and beatified missionaries, and especially to the maternal protection of the Queen of the Holy Rosary.
O Mary, help us to remember that every Christian is called to be a proclaimer of the Gospel by his word and by his life.
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[After the Angelus the Holy Father said in English:]
I extend heartfelt greetings to the English-speaking visitors here today. In this month of October, dedicated to the holy rosary, we ponder with Mary the mysteries of our salvation, and we ask the Lord to help us grow in our understanding of the marvelous things he has done for us.
May God fill you with his love and may he grant you and all those dear to you his blessings of joy and peace.
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The uncertainty children experience when searching for information influences their information seeking behavior by stimulating curiosity or hindering their search efforts. This study explored the interactions...
Ranking of daily deals with concept expansion
July 2015
Roi Blanco | Michael Matthews | Peter Mika
Daily deals have emerged in the last three years as a successful form of online advertising. The downside of this success is that users are increasingly overloaded by the many thousands of deals offered...
Automatic summarization assessment through a combination of semantic and syntactic information for intelligent educational systems
July 2015
Asad Abdi | Norisma Idris | Rasim M. Alguliev | Ramiz M. Aliguliyev
Summary writing is a process for creating a short version of a source text. It can be used as a measure of understanding. As grading students' summaries is a very time-consuming task, computer-assisted...
Research patterns and trends of Recommendation System in China using co-word analysis
July 2015
Jiming Hu | Yin Zhang
This paper examines the research patterns and trends of Recommendation System (RecSys) in China during the period of 2004–2013. Data (keywords in articles) was collected from the China Academic Journal...
Summarization of changes in dynamic text collections using Latent Dirichlet Allocation model
Available online 30 June 2015
Manika Kar | Sérgio Nunes | Cristina Ribeiro
In the area of Information Retrieval, the task of automatic text summarization usually assumes a static underlying collection of documents, disregarding the temporal dimension of each document. However,...
On the impact of emotions on author profiling
Available online 30 June 2015
Francisco Rangel | Paolo Rosso
In this paper, we investigate the impact of emotions on author profiling, concretely identifying age and gender. Firstly, we propose the EmoGraph method for modelling the way people use the language...
Generic method for detecting focus time of documents
Available online 15 June 2015
Adam Jatowt | Ching Man Au Yeung | Katsumi Tanaka
Time is an important aspect of text documents. While some documents are atemporal, many have strong temporal characteristics and contain contents related to time. Such documents can be mapped to their...
Discovering topic time from web news
Available online 12 June 2015
Xujian Zhao | Peiquan Jin | Lihua Yue
Topic time reflects the temporal feature of topics in Web news pages, which can be used to establish and analyze topic models for many time-sensitive text mining tasks. However, there are two critical...
Evaluating document filtering systems over time
Available online 12 June 2015
Tom Kenter | Krisztian Balog | Maarten de Rijke
Document filtering is a popular task in information retrieval. A stream of documents arriving over time is filtered for documents relevant to a set of topics. The distinguishing feature of document...
Expressive signals in social media languages to improve polarity detection
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E. Fersini | E. Messina | F.A. Pozzi
Social media represents an emerging challenging sector where the natural language expressions of people can be easily reported through blogs and short text messages. This is rapidly creating unique...
Time and information retrieval: Introduction to the special issue
Available online 8 June 2015
Leon Derczynski | Jannik Strötgen | Ricardo Campos | Omar Alonso
Why do urban legends go viral?
Available online 8 June 2015
Marco Guerini | Carlo Strapparava
Urban legends are a genre of modern folklore, consisting of stories about rare and exceptional events, just plausible enough to be believed, which tend to propagate inexorably across communities. In...
A reinforcement learning formulation to the complex question answering problem
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Yllias Chali | Sadid A. Hasan | Mustapha Mojahid
We use extractive multi-document summarization techniques to perform complex question answering and formulate it as a reinforcement learning problem. Given a set of complex questions, a list of relevant...
Feature-based approaches to semantic similarity assessment of concepts using Wikipedia
May 2015
Yuncheng Jiang | Xiaopei Zhang | Yong Tang | Ruihua Nie
Semantic similarity assessment between concepts is an important task in many language related applications. In the past, several approaches to assess similarity by evaluating the knowledge modeled in...
Influence of social software features on the reuse of Business Intelligence reports
May 2015
Paul Alpar | Tobias H. Engler | Michael Schulz
Vendors of Business Intelligence (BI) software have recently started extending their systems by features from social software. The generated reports may include profiles of report authors and later...
Learning combination weights in data fusion using Genetic Algorithms
May 2015
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Researchers have shown that a weighted linear combination in data fusion can produce better results than an unweighted combination. Many techniques have been used to determine the linear combination...
What do you wish to see? A summarization system for movies based on user preferences
May 2015
Rajkumar Kannan | Gheorghita Ghinea | Sridhar Swaminathan
Video summarization aims at producing a compact version of a full-length video while preserving the significant content of the original video. Movie summarization condenses a full-length movie into...
Exploring search task difficulty reasons in different task types and user knowledge groups
May 2015
Jingjing Liu | Chang Suk Kim | Caitlin Creel
Search task difficulty has been attracting much research attention in recent years, mostly regarding its relationship with searchers' behaviors and the prediction of task difficulty from search behaviors....
Temporal information searching behaviour and strategies
Available online 22 April 2015
Hideo Joho | Adam Jatowt | Roi Blanco
Temporal aspects have been receiving a great deal of interest in Information Retrieval and related fields. Although previous studies have proposed, designed and implemented temporal-aware systems and...
Onyx: A Linked Data approach to emotion representation
Available online 21 April 2015
J. Fernando Sánchez-Rada | Carlos A. Iglesias
Extracting opinions and emotions from text is becoming increasingly important, especially since the advent of micro-blogging and social networking. Opinion mining is particularly popular and now gathers...
Studying emotion induced by music through a crowdsourcing game
Available online 21 April 2015
Anna Aljanaki | Frans Wiering | Remco C. Veltkamp
One of the major reasons why people find music so enjoyable is its emotional impact. Creating emotion-based playlists is a natural way of organizing music. The usability of online music streaming services...


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A Cut Above the Rest: Our contributions to the beef industryPosted: May 1, 2015 Filed under: Biosecurity, Farming and Food, News | Tags: beef, Beef Week 2015, cattle, cows, dung beetles, TWD Leave a comment
By John Smith
Next week Australia's beef industry gathers in Rockhampton for their triennial shindig, the industry's biggest — Beef Australia 2015. Over 85 000 people involved in all aspects of the industry will be there. From farmers and truckers, to agribusiness CEOs and scientists, all will share their ideas on improving the industry, an industry valued at about $6b in exports and a similar amount in domestic consumption.
Being ideas people, our scientists will be among the crowd. They'll be sharing what we're working on, and laying out the opportunities for farmers and others. We'll show how science can be used for a more productive, profitable and sustainable industry.
We've been helping the beef industry for as long as we've been around. Many of our advances go to show how innovative our farmers are, ready to take on new practices and technologies.
In one end, and out the other: Dung beetles, cow burps, and gut microbes.
Where to start? Perhaps at the end? Did you know we're the one's who brought in dung beetles to Australia to deal with, well, the dung? Indeed, and that's why you're sucking in air right now and not pesky bush flies.
At the other end we're helping understand methane emissions from burping cattle, which along with sheep accounts for about 10% of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. Using some innovative techniques, including the use of lasers, we can measure the emissions from cattle in different environments and on different diets. We recently figured out the cattle in northern Australia on certain grasses emit about 30% less methane than previously estimated, so we've worded up the IPCC to correct the record on Australia's emission estimates.
We're also investigating end to end to understand the mechanisms involved with methane production, such as gut microbiota, and looking to the likes of Australia's grass eating marsupials for ways to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve conversion of feed to meat.
Bovine 2.0: Breeding for the wide brown land
Early in our days it was recognised that the predominant European Bos taurus cattle breeds weren't really suited to conditions in northern Australia. Heat, ticks and other parasites took their toll. We crossbred the Bos taurus cattle with Bos indicus cattle, from Texas, to produce some improvements in tolerance to the tough conditions. Though many weren't impressed with us "mongrelising" their European breeds, their minds were changed when our new crossbreeds survived the 1930 drought. Overall, out breeding programs have brought in an estimated $8 billion to the industry.
We teamed up with international partners in the early 2000s to sequence the bovine genome. This genetic research has gone into both BREEDPLAN, Australia's National Beef Genetic Evaluation Scheme, and GeneSTAR, a test for a range of genetic markers associated with meat quality and desired production traits.
Don't hurt a cow, man: Cow welfare
We identified a genetic marker for 'hornlessness'. Horns are a big problem for industry. Horns hurt handlers and other cattle and removing them is hard on both animals and farmers. A poll gene test is now helping farmers select cattle that are much more likely to breed hornless offspring providing both production and welfare benefits.
We also continue to help the industry meet high standards of animal welfare by providing objective assessments of new pain relief options and mitigating the impact of long distance transport both on land and at sea.
McDaisy: taste and tenderness assessments
Of course all of this great performing cattle isn't much good if it doesn't taste good so researchers, including our scientists, worked with Meat & Livestock Australia to develop Meat Standards Australia – an objective assessment of meat for eating quality that takes the guess work out of choosing a great cut of meat, be it at the supermarket or restaurant.
Speaking of delicious, we've investigated ways of using High Pressure Processing to tenderise otherwise low-value cuts that also provides three times the normal shelf-life. This continues a long tradition of post-farm gate research for the cattle industry. We previously worked on refrigerated and frozen meats for long distance shipping, opening and expanding many export markets.
Mad cow, sane science: Defence against microbes
Along with our research into cold storage, our food safety scientists are using an enhanced understanding of food borne bacteria such as E. coli to ensure continued access to export markets such as the US without elaborate import testing regimes.
Meanwhile, north of Australia we're helping keep serious biosecurity threats like foot and mouth disease at bay by working with South-East Asian countries to improve their surveillance and response to diseases that could damage our cattle industry and greatly hinder market access. Similarly, in Australia, we're helping industry and government prepare for the next disease incursion.
As you can see, there is plenty of great Aussie ingenuity that goes into creating some of the most sustainable and salivatory beef in the world. So next time you're chewing over a beef burger, take some time to ruminate on the contributions we've made to the beef industry in the last 90 years.
Cattle industry swings behind safety gatePosted: July 24, 2014 Filed under: Farming and Food, News | Tags: cattle, cows, farming, safety Leave a comment
Cattle yards play a huge part in our local farming industry. In fact, with over 28 million head of cattle grazing on our big brown land, there are more cows in Australia than people.
Not only are our cows big in numbers, they are also big in size. Weighing in at up to 450kg, the risk of our bovine friends causing serious injury, and even death, is very real – to the point where cattle handling is one of the most hazardous jobs in the livestock industry.
That's why this National Farm Safety Week, we're revisiting a cattle gate which was purpose built to keep our farmers safe.
Designed by NSW farmer Edward Evans, SaferGate swings away from the operator when an animal charges it. This time two years ago we put the gate through rigorous testing. How did we do this? We thought we'd use our very own 'crash test cow'. See how it went down:
Since our bovine testing rook place in 2012, SaferGate has hit the market and been installed in over 100 cattle fences around the country.
Australian Agricultural Co's chief operating officer Troy Setter, said his company had installed some SaferGate units last year, which had already prevented potential injury to one of his livestock staff when a beast struck the gate she was attempting to close.
"If it was a normal gate, she would have been hit and possibly seriously injured, however the SaferGate simply folded away," Mr Setter said. "Stopping just one injury makes the investment worthwhile," he said.
Read more about the development of SaferGate or get involved in National Farm Safety Week.
Facebook helps solve weather station mystery in Timor-LestePosted: June 13, 2013 Filed under: Environment | Tags: agriculture, cattle, weather Leave a comment
By Claire Harris
We often hear that Facebook is used to post inane personal updates and share funny cat photos, but it can help scientists do their work, especially when their trial sites are overseas.
Recently, one of our CSIRO scientists solved an equipment failure mystery by visiting the project's Facebook site and spotting the problem, through some photo sleuthing just like a spot the difference puzzle.
Neal Dalgliesh, a CSIRO researcher based in Toowoomba in Queensland, works on a project to increase cattle production in East Timor to improve the welfare and income of smallholder farmers.
The project team established a Facebook group to enable researchers to communicate with each other, as they were located in East Timor, Indonesia and Australia.
As part of the project junior scientists have been learning how to set up weather stations that monitor temperature, radiation and rainfall. Data has been streaming in but, to the frustration of researchers, the weather monitoring stations were not working properly.
"For the last two months I had been mystified as to why a radiation sensor in Timor-Leste had been producing strange results," said Neal.
"We recently replaced the sensor, assuming it was malfunctioning, only to find that we still had a problem," he said.
Neal visited the project Facebook site and saw a photo of one of his Timor colleagues posing next to the weather station (on the right in the gallery below).
"Totally serendipitously I browsed the Facebook page, enlarged the photo and lo and behold, found the problem; and more importantly, I immediately knew how to solve it."
"The was a plastic cap covering the sensor, a rookie error," he said.
It is easy to forget, as the cap is in place to protect the sensor during transport and needs to be removed when the sensor is set up.
Neal says that making mistakes and learning from them is an important process and despite his many years as a research scientist, he's learned a lot from this event.
"Never assume anything, start at the simplest explanation first. And use social media in technical communication," he said.
"If I hadn't seen the photo, the problem would have remained unsolved for many months. Plus in the old days, it would have taken a number of days or even weeks to communicate this information back to the field researcher."
"As a result of rapidly improving wireless access, and Skype, I was able to immediately contact another researcher based in Oecusse and he fixed the problem," he said.
This cattle project receives funding from ACIAR and is led by the University of Queensland, in partnership with CSIRO, Timor Leste Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and the National University of East Timor.
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What the crash test cow sawPosted: August 17, 2012 Filed under: News | Tags: ABC, cattle, crash test cow, farming, injury, safety Leave a comment
It's not often our videos go viral but this week our Crash Test Cow clip was watched by over 3,000 people and posted on news sites around the world.
Our 60kg bovine, which was designed to test a new cattle gate called SaferGate, was even deemed more popular than Kylie by the Sydney Morning Herald: 'Forget Kylie, forget Cate, Australia's newest international superstar is far more impressive – it's a Crash Test Cow'.
It seems our cow is becoming quite the celebrity so we thought we'd share some behind the scenes footage taken from the perspective of our cow.
'Crash test cow' helps move farmers out of the firing linePosted: August 14, 2012 Filed under: News | Tags: ABC, cattle, farming, injury, New Inventors, safety 3 Comments
A new type of cattle gate aimed at preventing farmer death and injury has completed rigorous testing and development by the CSIRO. SaferGate, designed by farmer and inventor Edward Evans, has been put to the test by a CSIRO-developed 'crash test cow'.
MEDIA: VNR footage available HERE
Hundreds of farmers and cattle handlers are injured in Australia operating cattle gates. According to latest statistics, 211 farmers were 'caught, crushed, jammed, or pinched in or between objects' between 2000 and 2005. Gate incidents also account for 0.5 per cent of deaths among agricultural workers in Australia.
CSIRO's 60kg test cow, which boasts authentic horns and hide, is designed to simulate the force of a bull or cow charging a cattle gate, used on farms, feedlots, in trucks and abattoirs across Australia.
CSIRO concluded its research last week with a series of simulated crash tests designed to evaluate how SaferGate would perform when charged or kicked by an animal. The tests were conducted by hoisting the cow to a height of five meters before launching it at the gate.
SaferGate is designed by Edward Evans, who had his own leg broken when operating a cattle gate on his farm. Unlike a traditional cattle gate, it swings away from the farmer or operator when a cow charges it, preventing injury or death. This is achieved by a pivot mechanism which splits the gate into two pieces when hit, allowing the part of the gate in front of the operator to fold back on itself and away from them.
In 2011 Mr Evans won the ABC's New Inventors grand final and was awarded testing and evaluation of the SaferGate by CSIRO. CSIRO scientists have improved the original design by adding a magnet on the SaferGate hinge (the magnetic latch), which allows the gate to remain in a steady position – like a traditional gate – until hit. They have also added a handle on top of the gate that makes it easier for workers on horseback to open the gate.
CSIRO's improvements have focused on simplifying the gates operation, optimising safety, and ensuring that all parts and mechanisms on the gate can be easily maintained when exposed to harsh weather conditions.
Research Project Leader Peter Westgate, who led the project, said: "We have never been asked to test the performance of a cattle gate before. Our bread and butter is industrial fire, materials and building testing, but knowing how big an issue safety is for farmers and operators made this project as rewarding as it was challenging.
"What our tests have shown us is that the harder and faster the gate is hit, the better it performs, and even though the tests use a 60kg 'cow' compared to a real-life 1000kg cow, the result is the same."
SaferGate inventor and company director Edward Evans said: "With the help of CSIRO, it is great to finally see my vision for SaferGate coming to life. The improvements we have made to the original gate now mean it is even safer and easier operate on foot or on horseback. I hope to see it helping to improve the safety of Australia's farmers and cattle gate operators very soon."
SaferGate General Manager Mike Agnew said: "We are very pleased with the work that CSIRO has done and we are now focused on taking their designs forward and getting SaferGate manufactured and on the market. We hope to be selling SaferGate in Australia within the next six months."
The company is planning to launch the SaferGate initially in Australia and the United States.
Update: If, like us, you were curious to know more about the cow's role in all of this, then check out this video on what the crash test cow saw.


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Love this place! The snacks are tasty and affordable; the drinks (including virgin ones) are delicious, and the servers are courteous!
Love this place! The snacks are tasty and affordable; the drinks (including virgin ones) are delicious, and the servers are courteous!
They have tasty crepes you can get with fruit or ice cream, milkshakes, smmothies, and even candy. Prices are great and the staff is nice!
They have really tasty breakfast and lunch/dinner food that's WAY cheap! They're not open in the evening, however.
Really great Indian restaurant that's really convenient to get to. Their mango lasis are yummy. Their pakora is a delicious guilty pleasure of mine. I like to go there with a group of friends.
If you like delicious Asian foods and a lot of it this is where you go. My favorites are their selection of sushi and their chicken wing skewers. Weekends they have 1 free lobster abalone per person!
My favorite local burrito place (helps that it's down the street from me). Nice, fully stuffed, fresh delicious burritos for the price. The guys there are friendly. Great place to grab a quick meal!
Great sushi for the prices. Some of my favorites are their salmon nigiri their saba nigiri. A lot of their non-sushi items are good too. Definitely get their fried oysters if you like oysters.
Really great dim sum! Best place for tea in the Bay Area! Can e a bit pricy, but as a treat, it's a don't miss.
Their breakfasts are great AND a great bargain so go get breakfast there, but be prepared to wait a bit if you get there around 10 am. It's worth it though. Other foods are great too. Tasty & cheap!
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Twitter Sued For Sending SMS Ads To Recycled Numbers
Wendy Davis
, June 20, 2014, 4:08 PM
Twitter has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit accusing it of violating an anti-spam law by sending texts messages to the wrong phone number.
Taunton, Mass. resident Beverly Nunes alleges in court papers that she began receiving numerous "impersonal, promotional text messages" from Twitter last November, immediately after purchasing a new cell phone. At one point, Nunes allegedly received up to six messages a day, all from Twitter's short code. Many of those texts appeared to promote an online coupon site. For instance, one message referenced in her complaint included the phrase "There's a new Swagcode out!" It directed her to click on a link.
Nunes says she never opened a Twitter account, let alone opt in to receive messages from the microblogging service.
"Twitter knows, or is reckless in not knowing, that its SMS text messages are sent to non-consenting, recycled cellular number subscribers," she alleges in papers filed on Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
She alleges that Twitter is violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which prohibits companies from using an automated dialer to send SMS ads without the recipients' consent. "Twitter is responsible for verifying cellular telephone number ownership and obtaining consent before sending automated text messages to cellular telephone subscribers," she alleges.
Nunes is seeking to represent a class of people who allegedly received text messages from Twitter. "Twitter has caused consumers actual harm, including the aggravation and privacy invasion that accompanies receiving unsolicited text messages," she alleges. "Consumers are damaged by having to pay cellular telephone service providers for the receipt of Twitter's unsolicited text messages."
Nunes alleges that Twitter didn't take sufficient steps to ensure that it wasn't sending messages to "recycled" phone numbers -- such as by using a database that helps mobile marketers identify those numbers.
Twitter said through a spokesperson that the claims lack merit, and it intends to "vigorously defend ourselves against them."
Twitter isn't the only Silicon Valley company to face litigation for allegedly sending texts to the wrong recipient. Yahoo was hit with a similar lawsuit last year.
Yahoo won that case in March, when a federal judge ruled that Yahoo's SMS-sending system didn't rely on automated dialers. The consumer has appealed that ruling to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
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According to the police affidavit, emergency crews responded to a structure fire Aug. 12 on West Hill Road in Berlin. Police say an explosion had been reported before they arrived and they found a two-story shed with flames inside.
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Batchelder told police her son has extreme schizophrenia, as well as other mental disorders, and was heavily medicated. She was afraid her son had started the fire, since he was at her home before the fire started and she saw a red flicker outside that turned out to be the shed fire.
As police left to look for Stickney, a white Subaru moved toward them at high speed, they say. The vehicle came to a quick stop and Stickney got out asking if his mother was all right, according to the affidavit. Stickney told police he left to go to a friends house and didnt see anything suspicious when he left.
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